Majority? What Majority!?

 If on the other hand I tell you that to let no day pass without discussing goodness and all the other subjects about which you hear me talking and examining both myself and others is really the very best thing that a man can do, and that life without this sort of examination is not worth living.
Plato, Apology, Section 38

The Canadian House of Commons contains 308 seats, to rule by majority requires 155 seats. On Monday May 02, 2011 the Conservatives won a "majority " by winning 167 seats. That is only a 12 seat "majority". Steve Harper is no   John G. Deifenbaker ! And hardly a Laurier, or a Pierre Elliot Trudeau, or a Jean Chreitin! The next  Canadian Federal Election is October 19, 2015. How many seats over 155 do you think the great majority will be then?

Plato; Back to the basics...

The most green and novice student of contemporary Canadian politics knows how hard the great Conservative party can be on selected members of its own family. Why some of the finest Liberals have walked across the floor of the house to escape the blue fog. Homework question; since Steve Harper has been the Fuhrer how many people have bailed from the Conservative party to sit as Liberals or Independents? How many? Ya that is a lot. My favorite was Chuck Cadman!

Conservatus-Neanderthalus (Back Bench)

Over the years this amateur politco has noticed a very troubling, or if your a Liberal, a very positive pattern and constant trend. It is always the Conservative beautiful people that get hounded out of the Tory Bund! It seems that all the members with fine features and with no problem attracting money and other attention are soon out of favor, soon to be exiled from the Bund to find great second and long lived careers as Liberals! Very strange that... I have no doubt the Liberals are at this very moment casting up the next parliaments list of most likely  for welcome. And of course the Conservatives will not disappoint, will they?

Skeleton-Liberal (left), Skeleton-Conservative (right)

This leaves us to come to some very interesting conclusions...What are the qualities of the true long lived Conservative? Well, firstly they are as a rule lard arsed fat. Which complements their unusually heavy bone structure...The facial features are coarse, with hardened large lips, a product of the years of mouth breathing. Their favorite haberdasher is Wal-Mart. Post high school education consists of all the second and third tier foreign and western Canadian schools. The backs of their hands are are very thick skinned, this is due to the years of dragging their knuckles on the ground. Note; only the cabinet members finish high school as a rule. Anything more than that is considered with great suspicion....

It seems to me....